Game theoretic study on blockchain based secure edge networks

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Title	Game theoretic study on blockchain based secure edge networks
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2017
Authors	Xu, D., Xiao, L., Sun, L., Lei, M.
Conference Name	2017 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC)
Date Published	Oct. 2017
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN Number	978-1-5386-4502-4
Keywords	attack motivation, blockchain, blockchain security, blockchain security game, blockchain-based secure edge networks, cloud computing, data privacy, edge network, edge server, game theoretic security, game theoretic study, game theory, Games, human factors, illegal security gains, Metrics, mobile device, Mobile handsets, Nash equilibria, NE, Network security, performance evaluation, Predictive Metrics, pubcrawl, punishment scheme, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, security, Servers
Abstract	Blockchain has been applied to study data privacy and network security recently. In this paper, we propose a punishment scheme based on the action record on the blockchain to suppress the attack motivation of the edge servers and the mobile devices in the edge network. The interactions between a mobile device and an edge server are formulated as a blockchain security game, in which the mobile device sends a request to the server to obtain real-time service or launches attacks against the server for illegal security gains, and the server chooses to perform the request from the device or attack it. The Nash equilibria (NEs) of the game are derived and the conditions that each NE exists are provided to disclose how the punishment scheme impacts the adversary behaviors of the mobile device and the edge server.
URL	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8330529/
DOI	10.1109/ICCChina.2017.8330529
Citation Key	xu_game_2017

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Science of Security VO